AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session
Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:42
2002 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Montreal, Quebec Canada, May 3-5, 2002
Meeting #976
Associate secretaries: Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory
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Friday May 3, 2002, 1:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, I
Room B-3240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Olga G. Kharlampovich, McGill University olga@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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1:00 p.m.
Most recent results on finite basis problem.
C. K. Gupta*, University of Manitoba
Alexei N. Krasilnikov, University of Brasilia
(976-20-189) -
1:30 p.m.
Solvable $R^*$ Groups.
Patrizia Longobardi, Universita Degli Studi di Salerno
Mercede Maj, Universita Degli Studi di Salerno
Akbar Rhemtulla*, University of Alberta
(976-20-92) -
2:00 p.m.
Shift automorphisms of finite order.
Edward C Turner*, SUNY Albany
(976-20-101) -
2:30 p.m.
A survey of discriminating and squarelike groups.
Anthony M. Gaglione*, U.S. Naval Academy
Benjamin Fine, Fairfield University
Alexei G. Myasnikov, City College of New York
Dennis Spellman, Temple University
(976-20-45) -
3:00 p.m.
Some Further Questions on Discriminating Groups.
Gilbert Baumslag, City University of New York
Benjamin Fine*, Fairfield University
Anthony Gaglione, United States Naval Academy
Dennis Spellman, Temple University
(976-20-180) -
3:30 p.m.
The irreducible degree $n$ complex representations of the braid group on $n$ strings for $n = 5,6,7,8$.
Edward Formanek*, Penn State University
Woo Lee, Kwanju University
Inna Sysoeva, Penn State University
Monica Vazirani, University of California, Berkeley
(976-20-70) -
4:00 p.m.
Thompson's group F is not almost convex.
Jennifer Taback*, University at Albany
Sean Cleary, City University of New York
(976-20-75) -
4:30 p.m.
Isolated Flats: a gallery.
G. Christopher Hruska*, Cornell University
(976-20-194)
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1:00 p.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, II
Room B-3240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Olga G. Kharlampovich, McGill University olga@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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8:30 a.m.
Algebraic properties of relatively hyperbolic groups.
Denis V Osin*, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
(976-20-113) -
9:00 a.m.
Congruence extension property and weird finitely presented groups.
A. Y. Ol'shanskii, Vanderbilt University, Moscow State University
Mark Sapir*, Vanderbilt University
(976-20-107) -
9:30 a.m.
The Andrews-Curtis Conjecture for word-pairs up to length 14.
Robert G. Burns*, York University
(976-20-145) -
10:00 a.m.
Lattice subgroups of Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.
Lisa Carbone*, Rutgers University
Howard Garland, Yale University
(976-20-153) -
10:30 a.m.
On the structure of the Neumann subgroups of the modular group $PSL(2,Z)$.
Alina Vdovina*, Binghamton University
(976-20-104)
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8:30 a.m.
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Saturday May 4, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, III
Room B-3240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Olga G. Kharlampovich, McGill University olga@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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2:30 p.m.
Nonpositive curvature and small cancellation groups, I.
Noel Brady*, University of Oklahoma
Jon McCammond, Texas A&M University
(976-20-171) -
3:00 p.m.
Nonpositive curvature and small cancellation groups, II.
Jon McCammond*, Texas A&M University
Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
(976-20-173) -
3:30 p.m.
Generic-case complexity, decision problems in group theory and random walks.
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois
Alexei Myasnikov, City College of New York
Paul Schupp*, University of Illniois
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College of New York
(976-20-102) -
4:00 p.m.
Weakly finitely presented infinite periodic groups.
Sergei V Ivanov*, University of Illinois
(976-20-168) -
4:30 p.m.
Residual finiteness of ascending HNN extensions of polycyclic groups.
Tim Hsu*, San Jos\'{e} State University
Daniel T Wise, McGill University
(976-20-61) -
5:00 p.m.
On the conjugacy separability of Seifert 3-manifold groups.
Francis C. Y. Tang*, University of Waterloo
(976-20-58) -
5:30 p.m.
Residual finiteness of outer automorphism groups of certain Fuchsian groups.
R.B.J.T. Allenby, University of Leeds
Goansu Kim*, Yeungnam University
C.Y. Tang, University of Waterloo
(976-20-85) -
6:00 p.m.
Even Rigidity in Coxeter Groups.
Patrick Bahls*, Vanderbilt University
(976-20-203)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday May 5, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Combinatorial and Geometric Group Theory, IV
Room B-3240, Pavillon 3200 Jean-Brillant
Organizers:
Olga G. Kharlampovich, McGill University olga@scylla.math.mcgill.ca
Alexei Myasnikov, City College, New York alexei@att.net
Vladimir Shpilrain, City College, New York shpil@groups.sci.ccny.cuny.edu
Daniel Wise, McGill University wise@math.mcgill.ca
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8:30 a.m.
Ultimate quotients of trees and their diameters.
Dennis Clark*, Harvard University
Lisa Carbone, Rutgers University
(976-20-152) -
9:00 a.m.
Graphs of free groups.
Mark Feighn*, Rutgers University-Newark
Guo-An Diao, Rutgers University-Newark
(976-20-57) -
9:30 a.m.
The Automorphism Graph of $F_2$ and Whitehead's Algorithm.
Bilal Khan*, City University of New York
(976-20-184) -
10:00 a.m.
Infinite words and length functions on groups.
Alexei G Miasnikov, City University of New York
Vladimir N Remeslennikov, Omsk Branch of Math Institute SB RAS
Denis E Serbin*, Grad. Ctr. City University of New York
(976-20-95) -
10:30 a.m.
Beyond the combination theorem.
Peter Brinkmann*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ilya Kapovich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(976-20-177)
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8:30 a.m.